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  San Antonio TX (SPX) Feb 26, 2018 A Southwest Research Institute scientist with expertise in how water reacts with lunar soil contributed to a new study that indicates water and/or hydroxyl may be more prevalent on the Moon's surface than previously thought. "Water on the Moon is of intense interest for many reasons," said SwRI's Dr. Michael Poston, a coauthor of the paper, "Widespread Distribution of OH/ H2O on the Lunar Surface Inferred from Spectral Data," published in Nature Geoscience online. Water has been the focus of many ... read more |
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A brief history of Martian exploration - as the InSight Lander prepares to launchSydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 26, 2018 Roughly every two years Mars and Earth wander a bit closer to each other, making the leap between these two planets a little easier. In July this year, Mars will only be about 58 million kilometres ... more  
Millenium tapped for certification of Vulcan space launch systemsWashington (UPI) Feb 23, 2018 Millennium Engineering and Integration was awarded a contract for heavy payload launch vehicles and rockets. ... more  
Model based on hydrothermal sources evaluate possibility of life Jupiter's icy moonSao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Feb 26, 2018 Jupiter's icy moon Europa is a major target of astrobiology research in light of the possibility that it offers a habitable environment in the Solar System. Under its ice crust, estimated to be 10 k ... more 
Opportunity Celebrates 5,000 Days on Mars, Snaps First 'Selfie'Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 26, 2018 Opportunity is continuing the exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is positioned about half way down the valley. This past week the rover exceede ... more |
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CloudSat Exits the 'A-Train'Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 26, 2018 Mission managers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, this week lowered the orbit of the nearly 12-year-old CloudSat satellite following the loss of one of its reaction wheel ... more 
Tracking the global footprint of industrial fishingWashington DC (SPX) Feb 26, 2018 A study published in Science illuminates the extent of global fishing - down to individual vessel movements and hourly activity - and opens an unprecedented gateway for improved ocean management. Th ... more 
New partnership aids sustainable growth with earth observationsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 26, 2018 NASA and the nonprofit Conservation International are partnering to use global Earth observations from space to improve regional efforts that assess natural resources for conservation and sustainabl ... more  
German nights get brighter - but not everywherePotsdam, Germany (SPX) Feb 26, 2018 The nights in the German federal states ("Bundeslander") have been getting brighter and brighter - but not everywhere at the same rate and with one peculiar exemption: light emissions from Thuringia ... more  
SatCom options meet demanding connectivity requirements for helicoptersMcLean VA (SPX) Feb 23, 2018 Recognizing the unique capabilities of helicopters for a wide range of missions, U.S. and foreign governments are actively procuring new aircraft or refreshing their existing fleets. As they rely on ... more |
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State Department approves potential $3.2B missile sale to SwedenWashington (UPI) Feb 22, 2018 The U.S. State Department on Wednesday said it has approved a possible foreign military sale to Sweden of Patriot Configuration-3 Modernized Fire Units. ... more  |
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BAE profits fall, counts on government defence spendLondon (AFP) Feb 22, 2018 BAE Systems, the British maker of military equipment, announced a drop in annual net profit on Thursday but said it expected government defence spending to remain a priority. ... more  
Continental interiors may not be as tectonically stable as geologists thinkChampaign IL (SPX) Feb 21, 2018 A University of Illinois-led team has identified unexpected geophysical signals underneath tectonically stable interiors of South America and Africa. The data suggest that geologic activity within s ... more  
Quantum 'hack' to unleash computing powerSydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 15, 2018 Physicists at the University of Sydney have found a 'quantum hack' that should allow for enormous efficiency gains in quantum computing technologies. As scientists at IBM, Google, Microsoft an ... more
Seven ways Mars InSight is differentPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 23, 2018 NASA's Mars InSight lander team is preparing to ship the spacecraft from Lockheed Martin Space in Denver, where it was built and tested, to Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, where it will bec ... more  
US to Jettison Spy Planes, Satellites Due to Russian, Chinese Missiles - ReportsMoscow (Sputnik) Feb 22, 2018 The US Air Force is about to abandon expensive surveillance aircrafts and satellites, opting for an information network out of concerns over Russia's and China's increased space capabilities. ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 20, 2018  A start-up company from an ESA business incubator is offering affordable air-quality monitors for homes, schools and businesses using technology it developed for the International Space Station.
"We realised that the problem astronauts face with limited of exchange of air inside the International Space Station is also the case for many people inside buildings that have little or no ventila ... more |
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 New Orleans LA (SPX) Feb 26, 2018 
A structural test version of the intertank for NASA's new heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System, is loaded onto the barge Pegasus Feb. 22, at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.
The intertank is the second piece of structural hardware for the rocket's massive core stage scheduled for delivery to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for testing.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 22, 2018 
A recent view from Mars orbit of the site where NASA's Phoenix Mars mission landed on far-northern Mars nearly a decade ago shows that dust has covered some marks of the landing.
The Phoenix lander itself, plus its back shell and parachute, are still visible in the image taken Dec. 21, 2017, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orb ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 26, 2018 
China will accelerate research and commercial use of rocket upper stages, a carrier rocket official said on Friday.
"The Yuanzheng rocket upper stage family will have a new member, Yuanzheng-1S, this year, serving launches for low and medium Earth orbit satellites," said Wang Mingzhe, an upper stage architect of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT).
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 23, 2018 
Until now, if you're an entrepreneur planning future missions beyond Earth, you'd have to ask a big space agency to borrow their deep-space antennas. Now, thanks to the UK's county of Cornwall and ESA, you'll have a commercial option, too.
If you're planning on flying a robotic or even human mission in the near future to the Moon, an asteroid or even Mars, one indispensable requirement you ... more |
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 West Lafayette IN (SPX) Feb 20, 2018 
New research has demonstrated how the nano-architecture of a silkworm's fiber causes "Anderson localization of light," a discovery that could lead to various innovations and a better understanding of light transport and heat transfer.
The discovery also could help create synthetic materials and structures that realize the phenomenon, named after Nobel laureate Philip Anderson, whose theory ... more |
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 Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Feb 26, 2018 
Jupiter's icy moon Europa is a major target of astrobiology research in light of the possibility that it offers a habitable environment in the Solar System. Under its ice crust, estimated to be 10 km thick, is an ocean of liquid water of over 100 km deep. A huge source of energy deriving from gravitational interaction with Jupiter keeps this water warm.
Theoretical research to evaluate the ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 09, 2018 
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft recently turned its telescopic camera toward a field of stars, snapped an image - and made history.
The routine calibration frame of the "Wishing Well" galactic open star cluster, made by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on Dec. 5, was taken when New Horizons was 3.79 billion miles (6.12 billion kilometers, or 40.9 astronomical units) from Earth - ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 23, 2018 
No region will be immune to climate change, and new research suggests the Pacific Northwest is no exception.
To better predict how climate change will impact the northwest corner of the United States, scientists at Oregon State University and the U.S. Forest Service localized the predictions of 30 "general circulation" climate models.
General circulation models produce outputs at ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 12, 2018 
The Pentagon and Israel's Defense Ministry have launched 'Urban Navigation Challenge', a startup competition to create advanced 'counter-terror' navigation systems which don't use GPS. The project makes no mention of officially designated US "rivals" like Russia or China, but according to Russian experts, it would make no difference even if it did.
The project, officially dubbed the Combat ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Feb 26, 2018 
A Southwest Research Institute scientist with expertise in how water reacts with lunar soil contributed to a new study that indicates water and/or hydroxyl may be more prevalent on the Moon's surface than previously thought.
"Water on the Moon is of intense interest for many reasons," said SwRI's Dr. Michael Poston, a coauthor of the paper, "Widespread Distribution of OH/ H2O on the Lunar ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 16, 2018 
A blinding flash, a loud sonic boom, and shattered glass everywhere. This is what the people of Chelyabinsk, Russia, experienced five years ago when an asteroid exploded over their city the morning of Feb. 15, 2013.
The house-sized asteroid entered the atmosphere over Chelyabinsk at over eleven miles per second and blew apart 14 miles above the ground. The explosion released the energy equ ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 23, 2018 
With the aim of making the best possible use of existing satellites, ESA and Canada have made a deal that turns Swarm into a four-satellite mission to shed even more light on space weather and features such as the aurora borealis.
In orbit since 2013, ESA's three identical Swarm satellites have been returning a wealth of information about how our magnetic field is generated and how it prot ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 26, 2018  A dramatic magnetic power struggle at the Sun's surface lies at the heart of solar eruptions, new research using NASA data shows. The work highlights the role of the Sun's magnetic landscape, or topology, in the development of solar eruptions that can trigger space weather events around Earth.
The scientists, led by Tahar Amari, an astrophysicist at the Center for Theoretical Physics at th ... more |
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 Canary Islands, Spain (SPX) Feb 15, 2018 
Most of the information we have about the Milky Way stellar halo comes from its inner region, which we can observe close to the solar neighbourhood. However, for the first time the chemical properties of the external regions of the halo of our galaxy were explored with high resolution spectroscopy in the optical of a sample of 28 red giant stars at large distances from the Sun.
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 London, UK (SPX) Feb 22, 2018 
Astronomers reveal a new high resolution map of the magnetic field lines in gas and dust swirling around the supermassive black hole at the centre of our Galaxy, published in a new paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The team, led by Professor Pat Roche of the University of Oxford, created the map, which is the first of its kind, using the CanariCam infrared camera attach ... more |
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